I used to be a big music enthusiast, but all I've wanted to do is read the bible and understand God better recently.
Is it possible that all the music I've listened to over the years is actually the devil's instrument, to get it stuck in my head and not actually be able to quiet my mind and distract from God?
Most importantly, How do you guys get your mind to quiet, so that you can listen for the Lord's voice, if he chooses to speak? I try to meditate, but I'm struggling with this
Do you mind joining me for a short Bible study in order to show that the book of Enoch is a great deception that works to prey on minds that have not yet had a personal and prayerful study of the Bible and the Bible alone?
If anything in the book of Enoch is not in harmony with the Bible, then there is no light in it.
The very beginning of book of Enoch describes "watchers" as procreating angels, yet angels neither marry nor are given into marriage. Angels are non-procreating beings. This alone dismisses the entirety of the book.
Now for the sake of having a little longer Bible study, the book of Enoch mentions "giants" or "nephilim", but Biblically, the word for "giants", the masculine noun "nāp̄îl", properly represents a person. Expanded from the root word "nāp̄al", nephilim represents a people who have "fallen away".
The only other place it is used is in Numbers 13:33 when describing the people of Anak, an apostate people who had fallen away from the requirements of God. So while the word "nephilim" physically represents stature, is spiritually represents apostasy.
This apostasy takes after Cain. The race of Cain, spreading from the place of their first settlement, dispersed over the plains and valleys where the children of Seth had dwelt; and the latter, in order to escape from their contaminating influence, withdrew to the mountains, and there made their homes. So long as this separation continued, they maintained the worship of God in its purity. But in the lapse of time [...] The children of Seth, attracted by the beauty of the daughters of Cain, displeased the Lord by intermarrying with them.
Man was originally made in the physical resemblance of God. Even until the times of Abraham, the stature of man still resembled the likeness of his Creator (Genesis 18:1-2), and therefore there would be no distinguishing the appearance of an angel from that of certain men.
The book of Enoch encapsulates the imaginations of Enoch the son of Cain. It takes after the imagination of Cain in giving a “better” offering in the place of what Abel was told to offer. This is very evident when considering that the worship system of Cain came to be known sun worship (Genesis 4:16, Ezekiel 8:16), and that the writings in the "Book of Heavenly Luminaries", which is a part of the book of Enoch, involved sun, moon, and star worship.
And astrological worship will always be a form of Satanism practiced under the name of Baal worship:
Therefore, no different than the book with which it is written in, the "Book of Heavenly Luminaries" is nothing more than the counsels of astrologers and stargazers:
Such books are meant to captivate the imaginations of the heart and stick the head in the dirt while the body imagines itself as being elevated upwards toward heaven. So therefore lift the eyes up and away from such nephilim worship:
And turn them towards the Creator of the sun, the moon, and the stars:
Since you have time at work to listen, might I recommend something? I feel that this 36 episode lecture-series, which is based on the Bible and the Bible alone, will bring you very near to the Word of God as directly written in His book. These episodes may be exactly what you need and what you are looking for (it will even answer the question of music for you):
https://archive.org/details/walter-veith-total-onslaught-series